not all of the contracted to waiting containment ships. if pressure readings show it is intact below the floor of the gulf, teams could temporarily shut down cap and contain the oil. >> the best reason to be able to shut in the well right now, in addition to bloc all the oil from coming into the environment, it allows to us abandon the site if there is a hurricane. >> reporter: and not worth the risk, according to some independent scientists. why pose the rick to the potential effectiveness of the bottom quill the relief well by shutting this thing down, pressurizing the wellbore, the casing and potentially blowing that thing out between questioned and the oil reservoir. making it impossible or difficult to do the final solution. and i'm not sure that this is a risk worth taking. it doesn't seem prudent. >> reporter: but government scientists say that's why they took an extra day to an lies the process. and they believe data from the te test dog provide key informing. the number one swl to stop it at the source. >> reporter: a goal that has eluded them for 87 days and counting. the cap test dog take up to 48 hours and during that time, crews will suspend drilling on the primary relief well. jay gray, nbc news, louisiana. tonight reagan national airport is recovering from a power outage that force ad shutdown of ticket counters and security screenings for hours this afternoon. the electricity is back on now inside the two affected terminals but some people trying to get out of town are still feeling the effects. john schriffen has the latest. >> reporter: tonight we have good news and unfortunately, we also do have some bad news. first good news. as you said, the power is back on inside this terminal. as you can see, the long lines that wrapped around the building have all gone away. the bad news, unfortunately, those delays that cause so many people frustration earlier, those delays will continue on into tonight. with no power to check, computers were down, escalators were stalled, and people were frustrated waiting in line after line after line. how long have you been waiting here at the airport? >> about an hour and a half. it feels like longer. >> reporter: melissa was trying to get home to kansas city but her four young kids were growing impatient waiting for the power to come back on. what has it been like sitting around in the airport? >> boring. >> reporter: what have you been doing to stay busy? >> nothing. >> reporter: are you hoping to get out of here soon? >> yeah. >> reporter: the power went out in material naturals b and c around 11:45 this morning when the metropolitan washington airport authority says the problem occurred in a maintenance room next to the terminals. >> many of the back-up systems are running. >> reporter: many planes were affected and tack off as scheduled. but passengers waiting to get tickets or checked bags were out of luck. >> pretty frustrating. it is. if i had done my boarding pass from the hotel, i could have just got on the plane. i was waiting to check the bag so i decided not to. but they're telling us, the planes will leave regardless of whether we're on them. >> reporter: businesses in the terminal also took a hit. they had to put oeg ice. because the cash register wasn't working, workers estimated prices. >> it is slow. no business. we're trying to accommodate everyone. trying serve cold food and everything but it's slow. >> reporter: around 2:00, over two hours later, the power slowly began to come back on. for some passengers, the damage was already done. >> my flight left. >> what are you going to do now? >> stand on this line, see if my office can get me on a different flight from a different airport. and when and if they do that, i'll leave. >> reporter: authorities are still investigating the exact cause of this whole power outage here earlier. for anyone who is traveling here out of reagan national, you are advised to call your specific airline carrier. just looking at the board of departures hear tonight, many of the flights are delayed by at left a an hour. reporting here live from reagan national airport. back to you in the studio. >> good advice. thank you. progress is finally being made on those stationary escalators at the dupont circle metro station. some riders are still frustrated. two escalators on the q street entrance are now in motion. one escalator on the 19th street side won't be fixed until the end of the month. the problems began monday when smoke was seen coming from one of the escalator motors. crews have been trying to repair them ever since. some riders are having a tougher time than others. >> aid sprained trying walk down the steps. i believe this has been broken several days. i found it to be ridiculous. absolutely. >> some of the part needed to fix the escalator are so old, metro has to make them. the entire problem, metro says, should be fixed by the end of the month. an update on the metro access driver accused in the rape of a special needs passenger in montgomery county. metro transit police now believe 31-year-old tanveer may have left the country tuesday on a flight to qatar. he is wanted in the alleged assault of a 36-year-old woman with disabilities a week ago. local authorities are working the get an international warrant for his arrest. >> there will be no jail time for delonte west, provided he follows the terms of a plea agreement from the circuit court today. the 26-year-old nba player was pulled over last area for speeding when police made a surprising discovery. derek ward was in the courtroom today and he joins with us more. >> reporter: he was apologetic and thankful for the outxom could have ended very differently for delonte west. his probation and communicate service after a traffic stop on the beltway revealed a cache of weapons. >> first, i'm happy that it is resolved. >> reporter: on the evening of september 17th of last year, it was a prince george's county police cruiser that was behind delonte west. corporal jeffy brown said heçó w westñi speeding and driving recklessly on the beltway. he pulled him over and west told him he had several weapons on him+i police found a remmington shotgun in the guitar bag across his bag, a .9 millimeter in his pocket and a magnum in the pants leg. all were load. >> i don't know where he was going. i don't know what he had in mind. >> reporter: in court, his attorney that he was moving the weapons from a home he shared with his mother in ft. washington to another home he owns in brandywine, maryland. his mother objected to having the guns around. still transporting load asked concealed weapons is a claim in prince george's county. after a guilty plea today, he is sentenced to two years no pro-bags and month months supervised detention. he will have to wear an ankle bracelet. way the sentencings take place in this courthouse and under the guidelines of the state, this is about what everybody gets. >> i'm ready to get on with my career. put this behind me. i look forward to doing positive things on the court and most likely, my biggest contributions are going to come off the court. >> reporter: he is ordered to perform 40 hours of community service. he told the court, his youth mentoring that he's already been doing. and he apologized for his actions, noting he realized because he was an athlete, many young people placed him high on a pedestal. he is ordered to undergo psychological counseling and treatment. >> reporter: after his apology, the judge said he had talked himself out of a third year probation. today a federal judge in phoenix heard the first of several requests to block arizona's new immigration law. but a bigger showdown is expected next week. when the judge hears six other lawsuits, including the one brought by the justice department. virginia is formally siding with arizona. the commonwealth has joined nine other states that have followed friend of court briefs. that's according to the attorney general. the arizona law requires police while enforcing other laws to question a person's immigration status if officers have a reasonable suspicion that the person is in this country illegally. that law takes effect july 29th. maryland governor martin o'malley told news4 today, he believes that new arizona law could be the beginning of a dangerous path. >> i think the arizona law creates a very dangerous precedent for requiring all citizens to have to carry immigration papers, status documentation, or face being detained for no other reason but that. it kicks the door open for racial profiling. >> governor o'malley made the comments on news4 midday. he said he believes the country needs immigration reform but only the federal government should be in charge of immigration. not state government. a news4 exclusive tonight. new developments on the d.c. council chairman candidate who is $50,000 in debt. somebody started shooting outside a school. the victim is in the summer jobs program. also, apple's problems with the new iphone go from bad to worse. what's ahead in the weather? >> it didn't take long for this hot and sticky air to return. now that it's here, it looks like it will be-stick around. >> coming up,ñr the first round learns the hard way. he is anxious forñiñi his big le return. plus, the british open. it's not tiger woods. a political rally in peru came to an end when the stage collapsed. two people were hurt. the stage floor gave way because there was simply too much weight on it. the rally was for the person who narrowly escaped falling heavy. the the nuclear scientist who claim he was kidnapped last year. he returned to tehran for an emotional reunion with his wife and 7-year-old son. he turned up at the embassy of pakistan here in washington this week and said he had been kidnapped. he repeated that claim when he arrived in tehran today. u.s. officials say he defected to the u.s. of his own free will and was paid $5 million for the information he provided. the official also told nbc news, he had grown noticeably concerned with his family's safety recently. they also note that iranian intelligence officials know he freely communicated with his family while he was here which undermines his kidnap claim them say he took a big chance in returning to iran. as for the money the u.s. paid him, it is in a frozen account and he cannot get to it. >> the vatican issued a revised set of in-house rules making it easier to discipline priest who's sexually abused minors. in its revision, the vatican doubled the statute of limitations in abuse cases from 10 to 20 years from the victim's 18th birthday. the new rules include possession of child pornography and the sexual abuse of mentally disabled adults are added to the list of crimes. the revision does not, however, contain measures to hold bishops accountable for abuse by priests on their watch. it does not require mandatory reporting of sex abuse to authorities. stocks were dripping by tend of the day after the senate pass ad sweeping financial reform bill today. that sparked some worries over how bank stock would do under the new regulations. the dow dropped seven points. the nasdaq lost less than a point. the s&p 500 moved a point higher. president obama is hailing the passage of those reform. the new regulations come two years after the if i know crisis began. and the nation's economy is still trying to recover. steve handelsman has our report. it was 60/39. if i know report passed the senate on a mostly party line vote. democrats brokary republican filibuster. >> thank you! thanks to the american people. finally -- >> reporter: president obama hopes voters applaud. in short, wall street reform will bring greater security to folk on main street. >> reporter: to protect consumers, the so-called bill assess up two new agencies. to regulate bank and crack down on ricky banking after the near meltdown in 2007. >> to fix this system so this does not happen again. >> reporter: republicans were passionately opposed. this is precisely the kind of thing americans are tired of. a government simply out of control. >> reporter: undeniably still out of control is the mortgage mess. new numbers today. foreclosures on track to stop 1 million in 2010ful because cars are selling better, gm skipped the summer shutdown. new unemployment claims dropped to the lowest level in two years. still, overall u.s. factory output dropped in june. democrats say their bill blocks it for the scary days of 2007. and in this election year, president obama is planning an elaborate signing ceremony for his financial reform package. from capitol hill, steve handelsman. nsa news. now contrary to some earlier speck laying, president obama is not going to sign the bill into law today. white house officials say he'll likely sign it next year. more if i know news, goldman sachs will pay $65 million. the deal calls for goldman to pay the securities and exchange commission fines of up to $300 million. the rest of the money will go to compensate these lost money on their mortgage related investments that date back to 2007. this is largest ever penalty paid by a wall street firm. coming up, new identity theft concerns. someone stole a cell phone filled with local medical records and social security numbers. we'll tell but three new diet drugs that could promise the victory in the battle against obesity. an unusual site at the world trade center site themselves unearth ad ship believed to date back to the 1700s. they think it was buried there deliberately to help extend lower manhattan island into the hudson river. archaeologists also found a 100-pound anchor in the same area but they're not sure if it belongs to the ship. that's not the kind of discovery would you expect in manhattan. >> no. but it would be cool to know where it come from. >> it would. so a little more steamy hot today. noticeably so. >> exactly. and i was a little surprised at just how much moisture we had in the air. it jumped in quickly. the humidity. i guess it didn't want to be left alone in the back seat there. temperatures high today. up to 90 some degrees, guys. so it will be sticking around for a while. out there today, hey, take a look at our weather video. sun flowers. >> it must be summer. >> exactly. it is the kind that grow in the heat. you barely to have water it. >> if only we could look so springy. >> exactly. >> 92 degrees, the high today. we started out at 74. the average high. average low, 88 and 70 degrees. guys, we hit that high today at 3:12 this afternoon. right now we're at 89 degrees. the dew point temperature is at 68 degrees. factor it all in. the feel-like factor, 94. when we hit that high earlier today, that dew point temperature was up around 98, 99 degrees. a southerly wind at 7 miles per hour. generally out of the south and southwest for the next 24 and 48 hours. during the overnight, some clear skies. a few clouds out there right now. we'll call it partly cloudy. in fact, there is one or two little showers coming through the area. 82 by 11:00 p.m. still clear skies tomorrow morning. 78 to 79 degrees. some clouds around fairfax and prince george's county. and under those clouds, again, they're one or two little showers that i've been tracking. kettering moving south and east. these will be fading as we move through the day. that one really has been dissipating and that is it across the area. but tomorrow, we could have the same sort of scenario. a lot of moisture in the air. so we get the heating, the showers to follow. 98 in culpepper. and there is the pattern. a big ridge of high pressure across much of the nation. the blazing heat that was down south. that now advancing to the east and northeast. look at the temperature. 90 in wichita. again, close to that even here. so so much of the nation, be only hot but plenty sticky. plenty steamy. and yesterday, newton, iowa, had one of the highest dew point temperatures i've ever seen. up to 88 degrees. that helped to fuel some storms. today that pocket, dallas to witch dark st. louis still. and memphis. now we'll see the higher heat index values right here coming our way for the next couple days. and for the weekend, the pattern that is unchanged. we'll be around the low to mid 90s around the area and still quite sticky. today storms in michigan. yesterday they were in wisconsin. let me show you the wind damage as well as the heavy rain that picked up. there were about a half dozen reports of tornadoes. some high winds around kenosha. up to 60 miles per hour. quite a bit of damage. as far as the rain goes, milwaukee, they've really had the rain. nearly four inches from severe storms that quickly turned those streets into parking lots and cars into boats. so what can we expect around here? well, we'll take a look at ocean city forecast for the weekend. our next chance of rain areawide is saturday. the water temperature now at 75 degrees. for the bay, 79. also some showers. it will be hot and sticky. cooling showers and storms coming our way for saturday afternoon. take a look at tomorrow afternoon. back to 95 degrees. we will take a look at the seven-day forecast. >> okay. more coming up. coming up, we'll introduce you to a driver who hasn't lost his need for speed at 94 years old. police make a major drug bust. new criticism for kwame brown. the d.c. chairman candidate who is being sued for $50,000 in personal credit card debt. i'll have the story coming up. coming, a youngster ties the record at the british open. plus, nationals pitcher jordan ready to return to the big leagues so there was a major crime bust in d.c. that city leaders say will make a rec center safer. the arrests were aimed at cleaning up street crime traffic. >> the drug traffic had been holding a local rec center hostage over the last few months. jacky benson joins us with more on the story. >> reporter: this started when people in the neighborhood began complaining they had this beautiful rec center. the kennedy rec center here at seventh and o streets. but people had stopped using it. that's because the good kids in the neighborhood were afraid to walk through here because they had to walk past an open air drug market. people standing around with guns in the waist bands to get here. d.c. police and dea agents started serving arrest warrants this morning. dozens were arrested. and officers recovered guns and drugs including an astonishing amount, about a kilo. this was a concentrated effort that we put in during this summer initiative to specifically look for those folks who remain in this community that are firing guns out here on the street while the kids are out here trying the play. those selling drugs, you heard the. a drugs recovered in this operation. the ones that are hanging in front of the rec center and selling drugs, or walking around with guns in their waist bands, those are the people we targeted. >> reporter: now what police tell us is there was a shooting just two days ago here right in front of the rec center. two young men were shot in the foot. they survived. back to you. d.c. police are searching for a suspect in the deadly playground shooting. it happened about 9:30 last night. that's the same rec center where a former congressional intern, joshua hopkins, was killed over the fourth of july weekend. last night's victim has been identified now as 39-year-old craig thompson of capitol heights. a d.c. school was put on lockdown today while police searched for a gunman. an 18-year-old was shot in the hand at raymond elementary school on spring road in northwest. he was visiting friends there at the school who were taking part in a city jobs program. police tell us, two groups of teens got into a fight. one of them pulled a gun and shot the victim in the hand. the school was put on lockdown while police searched for a suspect and a weapon. no arrests have been made.